It feels like a long time since we were in Warwick to do a leafleting stroll.

For traditions sake we met at the Black Pug and took a stroll through the historic town centre stopping off at pubs, shops and restaurants to share awareness of the upcoming races.

It was great fun to have a small group back together again and do some good.

Sweat, blood and tears were all involved this evening.

A small, but perfectly formed group of runners, including a welcome back to Tim, on his second run turned up on a chilly but dry evening.

Following a warm up of Snake we ran through the streets of Leamington Spa, the back runner sprinting ahead of the snake to form the head, before the tail runner sprinted forwards, and so on until we hit the lights. ITs the first time the group has been so silent, concentrating on the runners around them.

Once we arrived at the task, there were many stairs to climb - again.... Our high knees were getting a good workout this evening.

It was an evening of games, pacman (or pack man with everyone carrying the boxes) Iain played Tetris loading the van, and Becky making some running commentries to keep everyone going.

There was a lot of sweat with the constant climbing of 8 flights of stairs, and some tears and blood when a box decided to bite a GoodGymer. He was very brave and didn't make a scene at all......

Once the van was full, we did a gentle job back to base, where hill repeats were in order.... Just a couple due to the workout on the stairs, with Ragu and James topping the leader board, being superheros and taking on an extra repeat - they needed to get those KM's in for the January challenge.

Once back to base, a lot of stretches to ease out the legs and arms from all the lifting and stair running.

Great session this week, with some real improvements on everyones hill running.

See you all next time...

39 runners joined us on the first ever GoodGym run in Warwick and Leamington Spa, running a total of 6K to Bring Back Guys Cliff. We had an electrifying evening, where luckily no one sat on the fence and everyone got stuck in, including removing 20 meters of old electric fencing.

We started our run with the local paparazzi, its nice to be famous... although I'm not entirely sure we were as 'dynamic' sitting in the garden, so order was restored and we set off on our 'marathon' (can't wait to see the photos)

Due to the amount of runners our warm-up became fairly creative on the first part of the run, a nice little stop of fast feet before crossing the road warmed us all up.

Anne met us on her trusty steed (bike) and led us to the ghostly Guys Cliff. This amazing building is being bought back to life with much love and care from the local community.

We soon got stuck into a range of tasks from removing electric fencing (thanks to Simon for checking it was definitely dead) , to weeding, clearing leaves, cutting down plants and moving concrete.

Before heading back we did a little fitness session, including celebrating John's 100th good deed, he came all the way from Birmingham to support us. So of course we had to sing 'Happy 100th to him'

We finished off the session with some classic games - Sharks and Fishies, amazing how many fishies could be caught in one go when the area is fairly small. One runner even threw themselves to the sharks to let their fellow fishies escape.

Our final game involved getting each team member across the area by moving in a different way. There was some interesting use of arms and legs by some members and some beautiful high knees.

On our return run there appeared to be a bit more hill than we remembered. All safetly returned to The Fat Pug we had a little stretch whilst David told us about how to get involved in Mission runs and coached runs.

Massive thanks to everyone for creating a great launch night, we can't wait to see you all again next week. Don't forget to tell your friends too.....